The price cut for the Mountain View firm's connected home devices were announced along with two huge changes for the product line.

As alluded to above, the Google Home Hub has received a name change to the Google Nest Hub.

Explaining the reasoning behind the change Rick Osterloh, Google's senior vice president for devices and services, said: "Your home is the most special place in your life, so we need to be thoughtful about the technology we create for it. By putting people first, we are going beyond the idea of a smart home to create a truly helpful home.

"Over the past year we have brought the Nest and Google teams together to deliver on our vision of the helpful home.

"And today we are further simplifying things, bringing all of these products together under the Nest name.

"As a single team and a single product family we're following a set of guiding principles that reflect our commitment to putting people first."

Finally, Google also announced a new smart display during its I/O keynote called the Nest Hub Max.